Newark

News about Newark, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Mar. 15, 2015

Lisa Prevost Mortgages column examines offer of $1,000 vacant lots in Newark, NJ, noting that they come with a commitment to build and live on parcel; offers advice on navigating application for construction financing, which can be difficult to obtain; graph of mortgage rates in New York region. MORE

Feb. 24, 2015

The Appraisal column; City of Newark sells 100 municipally-owned vacant lots on Valentine's Day for just $1,000 to couples willing to build homes on land and live there. MORE

Feb. 1, 2015

Hockey is growing in popularity among Newark's youth, both girls and boys. MORE

Oct. 20, 2014

Op-Ed article by Newark Mayor Ras J Baraka argues local control must be returned to Newark's public school system; contends New Jersey has failed on all counts since it tool control of public education in 1995, making city a case study for failed experiments in top-down reforms. MORE

Sep. 29, 2014

Rachel L Swarns The Working Life column describes arduous work schedule of Maria Fernandes, 32-year-old who worked three jobs at three different Dunkin' Donuts stores in New Jersey; Fernandes was found dead in her car, where she regularly napped between jobs with engine running; notes that Fernandes has been held up as symbol of the range of hardships facing nation's army of low-wage workers. MORE

Jul. 23, 2014

Three-year Justice Department investigation finds that Newark Police Department engaged in pattern of unconstitutional practices, chiefly in its use of stop-and-frisk tactics, unwarranted stops and arrests, and discriminatory police actions. MORE

Jul. 10, 2014

Federal government will appoint a monitor to oversee Newark's Police Department as it moves to address longstanding allegations of brutality, discrimination and neglect of civilian complaints; effort is part of response to investigation begun by Justice Department in 2011 that has uncovered pattern of constitutional violations by police of New Jersey’s largest city. MORE

Jun. 17, 2014

New Jersey prosecutors say plastic flowers acted as fatal accelerant in fast-moving blaze that killed six family members in Newark. MORE

Jun. 16, 2014

Fire breaks out inside Newark home, killing six people, including an 11-year-old boy; cause of blaze is under investigation. MORE

Jun. 2, 2014

Lewis Katz, financier and philanthropist who died along with six others in Boston plane crash, attempted to leverage his part ownership of the New Jersey Nets in late 1990s and early 2000s to revitalize the city of Newark, NJ; while plan detoured and eventually dissolved, team enjoyed its greatest success in the NBA during Katz's ownership. MORE

May. 25, 2014

Newark's Halsey Street, over past six years, has offered increasing number of cafes and art collectives, giving New Jersey's largest city a denser downtown culture district. MORE

May. 15, 2014

Election of Newark's new mayor Ras Baraka is seen by many as rebuke of both Cory A Booker, now a senator, and charter schools; Baraka had run campaign ads casting his opponent Shavar Jeffries, also a Democrat, as puppet of Wall Street groups that support charter schools. MORE

May. 14, 2014

Councilman Ras Baraka is elected mayor of Newark; election result heralds shift in the direction that New Jersey's largest city has embarked upon for most of the last decade; Baraka defeated Shavar Jeffries in a bitter contest that was in many ways a referendum on former Mayor Cory A Booker's reformist policies. MORE

May. 13, 2014

Michael Powell Gotham column holds that mayoral race in Newark has a brutal aspect to it; asserts that both Ras Baraka and Shavar Jeffries are intelligent, early-middle-age men exchanging windmill punches and uppercuts; contends that their campaign styles fit the stakes of bruised and limping city. MORE

May. 9, 2014

Mayoral race in Newark between Ras Baraka and Shavar Jeffries is seen as referendum against Cory A Booker, now senator, who defined city for decade as celebrity mayor; Booker elevated Newark's profile nationally, but was never able to shake accusations that he was only a visitor on his way to higher office, leaving unresolved debates over education and gentrification. MORE

Apr. 25, 2014

Dan Barry This Land column on the demise of Newark Bears, minor league baseball team; it is auctioning off everything and formal title of event--The Newark Bears Baseball Team Liquidation--underscores the harsh truth that, for all its pastoral charms, professional baseball is a fickle, difficult business. MORE

Mar. 30, 2014

Mar. 18, 2014

David Brooks Op-Ed column relates personal story of Shavar Jeffries, candidate for Newark mayor who overcame tremendous adversity as a youth; argues that race between Jeffries and Ras Baraka exemplifies conflict in cities nationwide between those who are part of the political structure and those, like Jeffries, who want to change it. MORE

Mar. 4, 2014

Michael Powell Gotham column observes that Sen Cory A Booker of New Jersey talks often in speeches about his regard for Newark, sharing a splendid narrative of his time serving city as mayor; holds that Booker's speeches do not tell the whole story of his tenure, citing state audit revelation that Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corp, which Booker championed, was pilfering from city's coffers. MORE

Feb. 25, 2014

Study by American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey about police stop-and-frisk encounters in Newark finds that one quarter of police stops ended in an arrest or a summons, about twice as often as they do in New York City; study is first to examine stop-and-frisk policies of the Newark Police Department; group's executive director says new data could help spur public debate in Newark about the practice. MORE

Feb. 20, 2014

Michael Powell Gotham column; Archbishop John J Myers of Newark is adding 3,000 square feet to 4,500-square-foot vacation home in Pittstown, NJ, paid for by Newark Archdiocese; critics say half-million being spent on renovations could be better spent on parishioners and keeping Catholic schools open. MORE

Jan. 1, 2014

Fifteen-year-old New Jersey boy is charged with murders of 13-year-old Zainee Hailey and 15-year-old Kasson Mormon in Newark on Christmas Day; murders are among five committed on same day, raising fresh concerns over public safety in city. MORE

Dec. 29, 2013

Newark is experiencing an epidemic of carjackings; sharp rise in carjackings comes at a time when Newark is experiencing high rates of other violent crimes, and the feeling of lawlessness among residents is palpable. MORE

Dec. 27, 2013

Five people are shot and killed in two separate shootings in and around Newark, in outbreak of violence that leads to renewed questions about public safety in New Jersey’s largest city. MORE

Sep. 26, 2013

Lynsie Lee, 26-year-old stripper from Oregon, reveals Twitter correspondence with Newark, NJ, Mayor Cory A Booker; Booker is currently running for United States Senate; exchange was published on BuzzFeed. MORE

Sep. 25, 2013

Archbishop John J Myers of Newark defends appointment of Archbishop Bernard A Hebda by Vatican as coadjutor archbishop, denying move is related to criticism over his own handling of sexually abusive priest Michael Fugee; coadjutor automatically succeeds current archbishop upon his retirement, transfer or death. MORE

Sep. 24, 2013

Paul Bergrin, defense lawyer who once had a roster of celebrity clients and boasted of having tried hundreds of cases in federal court, is sentenced in Newark, NJ, to life in prison without parole after his conviction on nearly two dozen counts, including murder conspiracy and racketeering. MORE

Aug. 8, 2013

Editorial asserts Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who is running for the Senate, has obligation to give a full and personal accounting of his involvement in an Internet start-up that he formed with the help of several high-powered investors from Silicon Valley; warns Booker that he must make certain his connections do not create a conflict or an appearance of conflict should he win the senate campaign. MORE

Jul. 21, 2013

Michael Kimmelman Critic's Notebook column highlights the quiet upheaval that is turning New Jersey's Passaic River into a front line of reclamation; notes that revamping ravaged waterfronts in cities like Newark has become a common approach in area planning and renewal. MORE

Jun. 30, 2013

Jun. 28, 2013

David Goodell pleads guilty to murdering his ex-girlfriend Viviana Tulli after escaping in 2010 from custody of Newark halfway house run by Community Education Centers; case brought to light the many problems in state's system of halfway houses. MORE

Jun. 19, 2013

George Mendes, chef at Aldea in Chelsea, discusses classic Portuguese cooking and food during shopping trip to Ironbound neighborhood in Newark, area that still maintains Portuguese food culture. MORE

May. 26, 2013

Newark Msgr John E Doran is forced out of his post for failing to properly monitor the activities of Rev Michael Fugee, who had been forbidden from having contact with children; his departure is latest fallout from sexual abuse scandal that stretches back more than a decade. MORE

May. 20, 2013

Analysis by Metropolitan Police Program of the Brookings Institution finds that while the number of poor people in New York City and Newark has declined by 7 percent between 2000 and the 2008-2010 census, population of poor rose in suburbs rose by 14 percent. MORE

May. 18, 2013

Newark Mayor Cory A Booker, now a Senate candidate, reports that he earned $1.3 million in speaking fees over the last four and a half years; says he paid $476,156 in taxes and donated $619,253 to charity. MORE

May. 17, 2013

Op-Ed article by journalist and author Jonathan Schuppe describes how gun violence wreaks havoc on communities beyond blood and mayhem, as he has come to know from years of being crime reporter in Newark. MORE

May. 13, 2013

New Jersey Sen Steve Sweeney calls for Newark Archbishop John J Meyers to step down after reports surface that priest Michael Fugee, who was barred from being around children unsupervised, has been working with youths. MORE

May. 3, 2013

Five people are shot and wounded at a home in Newark; circumstances surrounding the shooting and the identities of the victims, all recovering at University Hospital, remain unclear. MORE

Apr. 14, 2013

Bard High School Early College in Newark is being lauded across the country as a way to provide low-income and disadvantaged students with a road map to and through college; students can earn both a high school diploma and an associate degree, and some are set on path to a four-year degree. MORE

Apr. 14, 2013

Michael T Luongo Heads Up column observes that culinary scene in Newark's Ironbound district, once dominated by restaurants serving traditional Italian or Iberian fare, has shifted gears in recent years; notes that area houses a variety of restaurant and nightclub hybrids with music and menus that cater to all comers. MORE

Mar. 26, 2013

Reassessment of property values in Newark shows that many commercial sites have doubled in value, with appreciation of some commercial properties outpacing that of office space in Midtown Manhattan; jump in land assessments has shocked Newark businesses, generating such a strong outcry that Mayor Cory A Booker describes situation as a crisis. MORE

Mar. 19, 2013

Jury in federal court in Newark convicts Paul W Bergrin, attorney known for his defense of drug lords and rap stars, on all 23 counts against him, including murder; Bergrin was accused of using his criminal defense practice as an elaborate front for prostitution, drug running and even the killing of witnesses. MORE

Mar. 5, 2013

Mayor Cory A Booker of Newark, NJ, who is preparing to run for US Senate seat, says he earned about $1 million from public speaking engagements in his seven years in office, but that he donated almost all of the outside earnings to charity; pledges to put forth a full accounting of his earnings beyond his roughly $135,000 annual salary. MORE

Mar. 3, 2013

Feb. 14, 2013

Newark Mayor Cory A Booker denounces not only three men charged with forcing another man to strip naked before savagely whipping him, but also those who knew of the attack, which was posted on YouTube, and did not tell police; Ahmad Holt, Raheem Clark and Jamaar Gray are charged with armed robbery and aggravated assault and face up to 20 years in prison if convicted. MORE

Feb. 12, 2013

Ronald Salahuddin, former deputy to Mayor Corey A Booker of Newark, is sentenced to a year and a day in prison for conspiring to commit extortion. MORE

Feb. 6, 2013

Newark is in midst of a building boom and Military Park is poised for its own makeover; $3.25 million renovation will be overseen by Daniel A Biederman and his firm Biederman Redevelopment Ventures. MORE

Jan. 29, 2013

Plans to close or reorganize public schools in Philadelphia, Detroit and Newark are drawing complaints of discrimination against black and Hispanic students, and those with disabilities. MORE

Dec. 24, 2012

Police and prosecutors say they are investigating two stabbings in Newark, in which a young woman is killed and a boy is left in critical condition, as related crimes. MORE

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